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There was a time when I didn't think i'd ever come back into the community again. I checked in on the troops recently though and really felt as though there were certain conquests and developments I wanted to share. Overall I didn't think i'd have anything to lose by checking in and giving...

The internal drive is an IDE, which doesn't seem to struggle much at all with the recording process. I have 50GB SCSI drives that could work a little better, but I haven't tried that just yet. Storage isn't really an issue, even if I pull the data in at 640x480 uncompressed, I can still fit...

There's nothing wrong with a 2-liner. I wouldn't go any further than a 3 though. I cut mine down as such and it seems to work fine.

It's not too much of a worry, I have the hard disk on a sled at the moment that just snaps right into the Power Mac G3, and when I want to do the transfer, I power the system down, slide it out, slide it into an external drive case and power it up on the Core 2 Duo. There's another issue i'm...

It has to do PAL, otherwise I wouldn't be getting any colour input from my VCR. It was a case of switching to PAL in software and away it went. If there's one issue still holding me up... I installed the drivers for the USB PCI Card, connected the USB hard disk and now the external HD locks up...

I have a Realtek 8139 card here, but I can't seem to find drivers for OS 9 anywhere. I know they exist, but even the links on Realtek's own website are broken. Just for the record too, the G3 plowed through the video ripping without a problem. 640x480 resolution with no dropped frames, I don't...

Some good news, the Wings AV card will most certainly capture at 640x480 and possibly even higher. I'm pretty sure I just saw it pull video in at 800x600. The next hurdle to overcome was a limitation with Mac OS 8.6 and Apple's bundled Video Player tool that restricts the recordings to 2GB and...

Sure thing, although the key word is "supposedly". The post in question suggests using the 3ivx 4.5.1 Mac OS 9 extensions and codec to make the videos at the higher resolution, although i'd be curious to see if it really is 640x480 or just scaled up 320x240, though he seems to suggest the...

3 posts in a row now... but the Power Mac is running perfectly stable with a G4 running at 400mhz (66mhz bus with a multiplier of 6x). I've also stuck an ATI Rage 128 Pro PCI in there to give it a bit more video horsepower to work with. Of course I had to steal those parts off my Yikes G4...

Agreed. When I was specialising in auto parts, I found out that O-rings aren't made to each vehicle manufacturer's specifications, but rather they just make a number of O-rings in varying thickness, diameter, etc and the auto manufacturers comply to that. So you should be able to find an...

Spot on. The power supply goes into self-protect mode, where it constantly attempts to seemingly restart the power flow. The "whoop" or "flup" sound (both of these sounds are correct) is the floppy disk drive attempting to start up, being cut short, attempting to start again and so forth, all in...

Well, i've found and documented some extensions that can supposedly push the Wings card right over its boundaries into 640x480 territory. The downside is that on a G3 processor it can only record at 5-7 frames per second, and needs the AltiVec Velocity Engine to give the machine the performance...

I'll look into the Wings card, but that's something I wish I knew before I dropped $40 on the system, otherwise I probably wouldn't have even thought about it. That said the SCSI tape drives, Syquest drives, ZIP drives... and so on are pretty interesting devices to mess around with. I'll...

Of course, the last picture is the obligatory "cat snuck his tail into the shot" photo.

That's the one... two pressure sensors on the base. This one is most certainly ADB, no converters or anything in between. I'm pretty keen to give the Wings card a whirl, especially once it's running a G4 processor and a faster system bus (these tend to go a few MHz higher with a chip rated for...

For so long... SO long have I wanted a Power Mac G3 MiniTower. Only this one came with a New World companion, and a few extras to boot. Power Macintosh G3 MiniTower 266mhz PowerPC G3 Processor 384mb Memory 8GB Internal Hard Disk Drive Wings AV Personality Card USB 2.0 PCI Card Some kind...

I'm sure i'm not the only one to remember back when this place had an army motif... people actually had some clever uses for their signatures back then. Lets see more of that... while we're at it, how about the army motif back as well... ...never gonna happen. Oh well. I thought that's pretty...

You're pretty safe, if you want to be really cautious then just avoid touching the CRT while removing the card. The charge in the tube isn't distributed through the logic board or that card, just the analog board and the CRT. That said i'm pretty sure the Macintosh SE has bleeder circuitry to...

It's been all very hush, i've found. One could assume they're fitting into their new roles as quietly as possible. Wonder what changes this will inevitably herald for this site.

I didn't take any when I had the internals swapped over, sorry. If I do the swap over again, i'll have a camera on hand. That said, it looks just like a Macintosh Plus from the outside and a Macintosh SE on the inside, nothing really special about it. For Reference Only... There are a few...